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According to the Russian Official, it’s one of the things the US have achieved with “Operation Midnight Hammer”.
According to the Russian Official, it’s one of the things the US have achieved with “Operation Midnight Hammer”.
What is happening?
During the weekend, USA excecuted “Operation Midnight Hammer”, bombing three sites of the Iranian nuclear programme.
Iran retaliated last night by firing missiles at US Airforce bases in Qatar, none of the missiles hit their target.
Ceasefire in effect
According to both US President Donald Trump and Iranian state television, a ceasefire between Israel and Iran is now in effect.
What did the US achieve?
It looks like Operation Midnight Hammer brought the Iranian regime to it’s knees and thereby forcing it to agree to a ceasefire – a stark contrast to what has been said by the Iranian leadership the last couple of weeks.
But the US might have achieved something else – something they did not want to.
Medvedev: 3 accomplishments from attack
In a post on X, former Russian President and now Deputy Chairman of the Security Council in Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, sums up what Operation Midnight Hammer accomplished in his views.
And one of them is particularly eery.
Only minor damage
Medvedev start out by saying that critical infrastructure of the nuclear fuel cycle appears to be unaffected or sustained only minor damage.
Production will continue
Medvedev then says, he believes that enrichment of nuclear material for the purpose of producing nuclear weapons, will continue.
Countries ready to supply Iran with nukes
The third and scariest point, Medvedev makes in his post, is that:
“A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads.”
Impossible to verify
It is important to note, that Medvedev does not offer any proof of his point about countries being willing to supply Iran with nukes, and he does not say whether Russia is one of those countries.
Trump: Did he just use the N-word?
In a response posted to Truth Social, US President Donald Trump said:
“Did I hear Former President Medvedev, from Russia, casually throwing around the “N word” (Nuclear!), and saying that he and other Countries would supply Nuclear Warheads to Iran? (…) The “N word” should not be treated so casually.”
That’s why Putin is the boss
Trump goes on to say, that he guesses “that’s why Putin’s ‘THE BOSS'”
If you think, our “hardware” was great
Finally, Trump makes a point about the military material used in Operation Midnight Hammer:
“By the way, if anyone thinks our “hardware” was great over the weekend, far and away the strongest and best equipment we have, 20 years advanced over the pack, is our Nuclear Submarines.”
What happens now?
With the ceasefire confirmed and in effect, hopes are that the upcoming days will be peaceful.
But the situation is volatile, and things can quickly change, especially if intelligence suggest that Iran is actually being supplied with nuclear warheads by other countries.